Consciousness
Our subjective awareness of ourselves and our environment
What is Consciousness?
a recurring sleep stage during which dreams commonly occur
What is REM?
A periodic, natural loss of consciousness
What is Sleep?
recurring problems falling and staying asleep
This dream theory includes manifest content and latent content
What is Freudian?
A condition where a person can respond to visual stimulus without consciously experiencing it
What is Blindsight?
Each sleep cycle is approximately this long
What is 90 minutes?
What is Circadian Rhythm?
A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks
What is Narcolepsy?
This theory says that dreams are products of random neural activity
What is Activation-Synthesis Theory?
Processing multiple aspects of a stimulus simultaneously and unconsciously
What is Parallel Processing?
in this stage, a person might experience hallucinations and hypnagogic sensations
What is NREM 1
What is drop?
The tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation
What is REM Rebound?
What is sift, sort, and fix the day's experiences in our memory?
From the 1960s onward, this made it more feasible to study cognition or mental processes
What is new technologies?
This sleep stage is characterized by delta waves
What is NREM 3?
These cell clusters response to light to adjust melatonin production
What are Suprachiasmatic Nucleus?
Sleep apnea is characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and this
What are momentary awakenings?
This theory explains why infants spend much of their time in REM sleep
What is Physiological Function Theory?
What is Cognitive Neuroscience
In NREM 2, these commonly appear on an EEG
What are sleep spindles?
Age, Social factors, economic factors, cultural factors, and this influence the amount of sleep you need.
What are genetics?
This disorder is characterized by acting out the content of a dream while asleep
What is REM sleep behavior disorder?
This theory states that dreams can be viewed as intensified mind wandering, enhanced by visual imagery
What is Cognitive Development Theory?